Ok, enough is enough :) Over 76 worm attack attempts of
code red on a home machine - is that normal or what ?

Anyway, had a good time at the birthday party. Frank got a
mobile phone as a present. Now we can bug him with SMS and
calling his number, then hanging off on the first ring :))

Although the day started with rain, it went quite well
over the day. But tonight a short shower during our
barbeque wasn't what was needed. At least we were done
with eating so that wasn't much of a problem. It stopped
within a couple of minutes so we could go outside again.
Went home by train, got here, raining cats and dogs. I
hope tomorrow will bring better weather, at least over the
weekend so I can go to the fair on monday.

Whoohoo! I got 57 !!! CodeRed worm attempts on my machine!
Isn't that amazing ? I just checked. This morning it were
33, when I returned from my colleagues it were 46 and now
57. Tomorrow it will be over 70 I guess. When does this
crap end ? Probably when all infected IIS severs are
rebooted :)

Anyway, printed out the whole stuff I need for learning
over the next weeks. Quite some pages, I hope it's worth
the trouble with StarOffice's import filter. Why do
students use Word instead of Latex and a pdf file ???

Went to the fun fair tonight. First time since it's up
this week. Met some former colleagues of the electrical
power company I worked for here in the high voltage
section. Was fun to see them all again. We went over the
beer pubs the whole evening so it's almost a miracle I can
still type so fast and (hopefully) correct :)

Tomorrow another birthday party for Frank. I hope he isn't
too depressed that he turned 26 last week :) Barbeque will
be fun as always I guess. And Anja announced to go with me
over the funfair on the weekend probably. We'll phone
again tomorrow. Then, monday I'm supposed to go down to my
parents for another fair. The most famous of the year.
2000 people and lots of beer and music. That will be fun.
Especially as I'm probably supposed to drink a whole lot
of beer again like last year. Hmmm...I wanted to loose
weight instead of gaining :) But probably I can't resist.

I think the relaxing of the last days in terms of taking
care and thinking about everything did me some good. The
shaking I had in my left hand's two leftmost fingers
didn't occur since monday or tuesday. It was time for
that. I hate my fingers shaking like (who was it?) in the
Saving Private Ryan movie.

Got the new TFT monitor from David on monday. Works
brilliant and finally a good solution to work on the
laptop remotely on a much more ergonomic way.

Things have gotten back to normal since KDE 2.2 has
been
tagged and the last fixes go in. I can only monitor what's
going on on the mailinglist because I have not much more
time to respond - and not the energy. Whats fine is that
Leon put up a website with the detailed info about his
prelink patch:

http://www.research.att.com/~leonb/objprelink/

I should update my website to point there.

When I returned home past 7pm I originally wanted to
go to
the fair that's happening here this week since last
saturday. I hadn't had the time to go there yet and though
I originally wanted to go on sunday after the F1 race, I
didn't as I went walking for 2 and a half hours. In the
forest, I had flies around me which I tried to get off
with my hat. I managed to throw at my glasses with the hat
and I ended up with having them broken. It couldn't be
fixed as the holder was damaged anyway already by me
stepping on the glasses while looking for them....to bad,
those glasses were titan-flex, cost a lot and I liked the
robustness. Went to the optician on monday to get new
ones, ended up with reusing the glasses and just buying a
new holder. Left the glasses there until I could get them
back yesterday. All in all I lost quite some time
unfortunately but I hope to catch this up on the weekend.
The new ones are quite good and I like wearing them. At
least that can be expected for a pair of 236 DM repair...

Didn't go to the fair, still. Maybe tomorrow, maybe
over
the weekend. I'm supposed to visit my parents by sunday,
but maybe I'll stay here and work until monday night when
there is another fair at their place that is very famous
and the best day is next monday. I will be very drunk if I
go so I can't expect to come back here by car until
tuesday evening. I'm not yet sure do to it or not.

Took my time to watch that "opposite of sex" movie last
night. I had quite some good laughs so I would like to see
the non-synchronized version once. Later last night I
watched StarWars the return of the jedi which came on TV.
There`s nothing better than watching those movies without
ads. Enyoyed it a lot, though I *think* I fell asleep on
the couch again. I really don't remember, it's happening
so often the last weeks and month...I really need someone
throwing me off the couch when I fall asleep and drag me
to bed.

Ha! KDE did it again! someone thought over the problem
with prelinking and the startup speed of KDE apps aside
the current plan from the gcc people to make the ld linker
optimize the apps and libs for dynamic linking. He posted
a patch with a clear description how to apply it. It's
actually not a patch, but a program that is to be run over
the object files (*.o) after a make, then touch all object
files and run make again to link libraries/applications.
The speed improvement is *very* significant. As some
people didn't have it handy on IRC, I just put that stuff
on my webserver and added a link: http://kandalf.homeip.net.
Just follow the link and read the file prelink
which is a copy of the mail, and compile objprelink1.c.gz,
which is an updated version that has been sent in later
yesterday. I used it on my machine and it's *incredibly*
fast now. It seems that in terms of speed, KDE apps will
finally be able to compete with Microsoft apps under
Windows, even though the graphics subsystem on UNIX is not
inside the kernel :))

One thing that sucks about this diary is that the cursor
moves a bit slowly. I really think moving this diary to my
own webserver would be a good idea and just leaving the
link here. Uhm...that requires cgi-scripting, right ? :)
And a database to hold the contents, right ? :) Could you
advogato people send me your cgi-scripts ? :))

Anyway, I tried ktexmaker2 yesterday with that LJ article.
Noticed I didn't have latex installed on the laptop while
I read over that article in the train. And I didn't have
the listings which were on separate sites. Now I fixed
that and I can finally start using latex a bit. I think I
need to learn that anyway because I will need that for my
thesis and that semester report that I have still open to
write for Uni. It will be fun, definetly. I would really
suggest taking ktexmaker into KDE and enhance it on
several places. There could be templates and some of the
very first, basic things mentioned in the tutorial from
the LJ are missing in the menus. Auto-completion would be
nice as well, so you get a popup for the available
commands and you don't make so many errors that require
you to fix them. Also, the output could be inside a
terminal window inside the program, not in an external.
Clicking on an error line would set the cursor there and
so on. Eeek! Wait, that's what KDevelop does for
programming! Couldn't someone just add a plugin for that
stuff and write up some templates for all kinds of latex
documents, say, book, article, report, slides and letter ?
The locale could be asked for the paper format to set a
default on that. Well, if noone else is up for it, my
diary saves at least my ideas.

ah, a long day is over again. Time passes by quickly which
is good for some parts, for others it isn't. I really
would like to enjoy the good weather but it seems that
life doesn't want me to do that since quite some years now
:)

Had a good day yesterday with the KDE 3 announcement at www.pro-linux.de. Lots
of people mailed they want to help on KDE programming and
quality enhancement. Good result for one day of
head-hunting.

Now, I actually thought about reading something about
cgi-scripts and do my diary on my own webserver now :)
That'd be fun. There's so many things that you can do with
a server, it's amazing. Unfortunately you're never
interested until it affects you and you have the
possibility to do it right away in your own room, on your
machine! /me is amazed :)

Well, day is over and I *need* to go to bed *now* :) Last
night I stayed up way too long to answer that spanish mail
from someone from columbia. I did it in spanish to see if
I can manage to dig out some of the stuff I learned two
years back by self-educating me, and I liked that a lot.
If I would only remember as much about my exams when I
have to write them, I'm saved :))

Done with re-reading the book for the exams, from tomorrow
on only calculating...it is so damn boring this stuff...

Got my 4.3 BSD ISO burnt on CD. Started the installation,
everything worked - except installing XFree 4.0.3 right
away from the CD because it expects me to OK a security
info on vt2 which can't be answered with any key ont he
keyboard...I'll give it another try tomorrow or the other
days this week, I'm really interested to get this thing up
with a firewall, routing and stuff like the book that I
keep since my FreeBSD 2.2.5 days and never made much use
of since I only had a slow modem. Now is the time to
faciliate the ports collection and the packages :))

Hmm...I should really buy a hub now with all these
machines and only one monitor, crawling under the desk
with my patch cable going from one machine to the other
isn't that much fun about networking that it could be...

Hmm..I think I've found the error ! I just changed
rcpppoed restart to rcpppoed start and it *should* work.
We'll see how things are going after the next disconnect
from the telecom. Learning has been well today, just the
lunch was a bit heavy so I got *very* tired this afternoon
over that stupid book. I hope I'll finish that tomorrow
with the Kalman filter stuff and then calculate old exams.

My brother had a car accident. That's what happens to
18-year old's who try to get their cars to the limit you
say. Well, everyone has to learn his lesson...glad nothing
is hurt except damage on the car.

Pretty exhausted after setting up my machine correctly
with firewall, bind and apache. Though apache was the
easiest to set up with SuSE :) DSL is really great stuff,
though I encountered some weird machine hangs yesterday.
And the reconnect script that stulle gave me doesn't seem
to work - the ipchains module apparently still gets loaded
though my firewall uses iptables and that is conflicting.
The /var/log/warn log said something from /etc/ppp/ip-down
so I edited that and removed all refereces to the suse
personal-firewall starting. I'll reboot the machine before
I now leave for my colleagues learning for my exam and see
if I got disconnected tonight when I'm back.

Another idea that I thought would be useful is doing
my
mails over my machine alone and moving all my mailfolders
there instead of keeping everything on the laptop. That
requires a proper re-connect after t-online cuts the
connection though....

Ah, and thanks to those that certified me as master :)
That's a nice act so to speak, I appreciate you're all
worshipping my feet :) Uhm...I should go and certify the
others as well then...but I'll do that tonight, time to
get ready now and leave.

Sigh. I join the crowd who spreads their sorrow on a
little, lonesome diary on the net as well... :)

Now, after I got DSL yesterday and set up my main machine
as a firewall and router, I'm actually a bit proud I got
it managed - not that I didn't thought I was able to do
it, but yet - I did it and success is always good for your
self-esteem :)

One thing that bugs me though is that I can't close port
6000 for X on the main machine to the outside world but
preserve it for my inner net. I *need* to have xdm show up
from my laptop on the firewall machine where the monitor
is...

Anyway, engough for today. Not much news anyway except
those usual large commits on a sunday...we'll wait and see
if those KHTML bugs go away soon :) At least, the webforms
work again so I can post my diary entries :)

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